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 Posted: May 19, 2009 7:23 am Post subject: Starting over |
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So I want my riding to progress this year. Im tired of being a heelside hero. I am planning on starting all over the next time we go out which hopefully will be Friday (hooky from work) or Saturday.
I plan on bringing my laptop out, and starting "the book" series from building a foundation on. Watching, then jumping in and doing.
I hope not too many boarders on the lake look at me funny doing the basics, but I really feel I want to start over and drill. I want to do a 360 by mid summer and an invert by the end of the year.
Anyone else "going back to basics" this summer?
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dirtycracker
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Man if you just let it flow itll come. Toe Side is no harder then heel. You just gotta commit and rip into it.
I think If anything I learned most of my board control just from ripping the wake. Just doing huge slashes into the wake all the time. It really makes u learn the edge of the board and u get really comfortable on the board.
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ctgretzky99
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| Posted: May 19, 2009 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| dirtycracker wrote: | Man if you just let it flow itll come. Toe Side is no harder then heel. You just gotta commit and rip into it.
I think If anything I learned most of my board control just from ripping the wake. Just doing huge slashes into the wake all the time. It really makes u learn the edge of the board and u get really comfortable on the board. |
I totallyunderstand what you mean, and Im sure that will work for most people. I feel like everytime I do that, I end up just riding and not learning, I hope you understand?
Dont get me wrong, I feel I am improving, the tramp exercises and working out I have been doing preseason helped get back into that first time out last week pretty quickly. just feel like it will happen even quicker (and for the long term) if I go back to basics and do some drills and force myself to learn cuffed position while backsliding, and learning all of the surface slides instead of just two of them etc...
I figure what better way than to just start at chapter one and go from there. Even if it ends up being on one tow that I do a drill as opposed to a full day.
Put it this way, Ill go on to the next chapter when I feel I have mastered the current chapter. Who knows? By the end of the year I could be done with "Spinning" and a part way through beginner inverts!
I got a whole life ahead to enjoy this sport so a few months of "training" isnt a big deal, just want to have a solid foundation for it for the next X amoun t of years.
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dirtycracker
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I totally understand. It comes down to just forcing urself to try new stuff. I can go out in one line and land every trick i know first try. and alot of times I settle with that instead of trying anything else. Its fun to be able to just do that but then u get to the point where u havent landed anything new in months lol
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| dirtycracker wrote: | | I totally understand. It comes down to just forcing urself to try new stuff. I can go out in one line and land every trick i know first try. and alot of times I settle with that instead of trying anything else. Its fun to be able to just do that but then u get to the point where u havent landed anything new in months lol |
At least you have some good tricks to do over and over  Im at a point where my heelside jumps with grabs are great into the flats with a lot of air (heelside hero!), my toeside is iffy (50/50 landing w2w) I can only do two of the four 180's, and my switch riding position and carving are adequate at best. When I land a 180, often times I surface slide back to regular foot so I dont have to wake jump switch 
It's getting old! 
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dirtycracker
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| Posted: May 19, 2009 9:55 am Post subject: |
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fo sure. Set goals for each set. Go out and say you want to land a switch wake 2 wake.
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| Posted: May 19, 2009 10:41 am Post subject: |
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| dirtycracker wrote: | | fo sure. Set goals for each set. Go out and say you want to land a switch wake 2 wake. |
thats the plan! Watch, think, do.
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| Posted: May 19, 2009 11:50 am Post subject: Re: Starting over |
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| ctgretzky99 wrote: | | Anyone else "going back to basics" this summer? |
So to speak, yes. I'm self taught and I really have some bad habits / walls I can't seem to figure out and I'm sick of it! I am taking a lesson or two here soon. Its all about fun, but nothing is more fun than progression. |
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ctgretzky99
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| Posted: May 19, 2009 12:04 pm Post subject: Re: Starting over |
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| Rhawn wrote: | | ctgretzky99 wrote: | | Anyone else "going back to basics" this summer? |
So to speak, yes. I'm self taught and I really have some bad habits / walls I can't seem to figure out and I'm sick of it! I am taking a lesson or two here soon. Its all about fun, but nothing is more fun than progression. |
Same here. I ride like Im still on a direction board with sandal bindings. I used to be able to do a lot when I was young, even able to land a flip or two. Now, I feel lost! lol
Bad habits...Im all over that! I see my toeside position in videos and I want to smack myself and not in the fun way.
Better to just start over, at least thats what I think anyway.
Good luck to you!! We can both try and break into some new stuff over this year.
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| Posted: May 19, 2009 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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And remember! Fun is everything!
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ctgretzky99
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| Medina wrote: | | And remember! Fun is everything! |
Absolutely, but this sport, I feel more so than others, if you get stuck at the level I am at, it stops becoming fun in a way, because I see so many people doing cool tricks, and here I am trying to land toeside w2w consistently.
Fun comes to me by improving 
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